La Fouillouse > Saint-Etienne

07/03/2018 - Stage 4 - 18,4 km - Individual time-trial

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- 07/03 - 16:51

Poels impresses but cannot topple Sanchez

Team Sky won five of the last six editions of Paris-Nice, and the British outfit showed, with Wout Poels's victory in Wednesday's 18.4-km individual time trial in St Etienne that they would still be a force to reckon with in this edition. But the Dutchman's brilliant effort in 25:33 was not enough for him to dislodge race leader Luis Leon Sanchez (Astana), who...

Luis Leon Sanchez: "It's already bonus"

In yesterday's stage, I left a lot of energy and I could feel today that I was paying for my efforts. I know I lost time on this TT but at the start of this Paris-Nice I was not even here with the idea to go for the yellow jersey. So it's already bonus to keep it for another day. In the team we also have Jakob Fuglsang who lost a bit of time in a crash, and the idea is also to...

Poels: "It was a good course for me"

Wout Poels (Team Sky): "I saw this morning at the recon that it was a good course for me especially the first part. It was a very good TT for me especially after the bad luck I had yesterday when I had to change by back wheel as Luis Leon Sanchez had gone. I don't know if 15 seconds is too much, I hope not. We will see in the next coupe of days. We were two leaders at the start...